how bono was circumspect with his praise to obama. president obama, that red ribbon today was so striking against the white house. but the same time, the global aids alliance has given president obama middling grade on the aids program saying yes, he made the first ever presidential multi-year commitment on funding but the same time, they feel like it came up short of the money that america should be giving, which reflects the economic conditions. >> bret: jonah? >> i agree entirely with two legs of charles' stool but this is a third leg he left out. american business. these pharmaceutical companies which are consistently demonized by democrats and demonized by the left as the horrible rapacious institutions are the ones who carried -- a lot of generic government-funded research but there was also amazingly nimble response by the free market to produce these things and we're one of the only countries in the world that can do this stuff. so i think, i'm a softy on the foreign aid stuff. i think that what bush did